No, neither - the amount of CO2 that'd be needed for use as a refrigerant is insignificant. There's already a lot of CO2 produced as a byproduct of industrial chemical processes like petroleum refining. Some of it is captured for reuse (e.g. in drink carbonation); most of it is released to the atmosphere.

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Yes. This typically manifested as either:

- religious or mystical experiences, often paired with the belief that the AI model is a manifestation of a divine being and/or has become sentient

- belief that the person has made a great scientific breakthrough using AI, typically in someone with no real knowledge of the field (which was usually theoretical physics)

- paranoid fantasies, e.g. belief that one is being followed or surveilled, that one's computers or other electronic devices have been compromised, etc.

(Ars Technica reports on a particularly horrifying instance of the first type at https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/09/man-told-chatgpt....)

I always love the “paranoid fantasy” one because all electrics are spy devices and they are spying on you

I also have some fond memories of WWWBoard instances, from Matt's Script Archive.

https://www.scriptarchive.com/wwwboard.html

> Smart Tags was a system Microsoft introduced in Internet Explorer 6 which would automatically inject hyperlinks into pages.

Smart Tags was present in some beta versions of MSIE6, but was removed before release. The MSSmartTagsPreventParsing meta tag never did anything useful - by the time its use was widespread, the feature it controlled had already been killed.

Well, then, I guess we'll just have to release the hypnodrones.

+1. Especially given that it can even run in the browser - https://yowasp.org/

ICE40UP5K is large enough to synthesize a simple RISC-V CPU with some basic peripherals. It's not huge or fast, but it's capable enough.

Note, if you need a barebones CPU but want to save on gates, you can go with a serial (1-bit) CPU, e.g. SERV which only takes up 198 LUTs on ice40,[1] leaving plenty of space to do other things.

[1] https://github.com/olofk/serv

You mean it's large enough to synthesize several application specific RISC-V cores and let them form an embedded distributed system.

> GNUstep ran early MacOS apps on Linux after Apple bought Next and adopted their APIs.

No, it did not. There was no point at which GNUstep provided binary compatibility with Mac OS applications - while the two ecosystems shared some common history, it was much too far back to provide any form of compatibility. Additionally, Mac OS X used a different executable format than Linux or other UNIX-like operating systems, and GNUstep never attempted to provide that sort of low-level compatibility.

(For perspective: the GNUstep project started in the early 1990s. Mac OS X was first released to users in 2001.)

It may have been possible for some developers to port applications between Mac OS X and GNUstep while sharing some code, but that's a long way from running an unmodified application.

I would be much more surprised by a system of commands which could be read in any order.